Mars Exploration Rover dust devil movie page

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All images credit: NASA/Caltech-JPL/Cornell/Texas A&M/Mark Lemmon.
See the bottom of the page for explanation of products. Generally, those
with "****", "*****", or "!!!!!" in the right-hand column are the ones
worth checking out. The "Enhanced" link points to the highest quality
movie available.

A note on image types: All images are based on RAD (or RAT for thumbnails) calibrated Navcam images.
Three levels of processing are used. (1) Unaltered, calibrated images. (2) Motion-filtered images.
(3) Enhanced images, which are calibrated images with time-variable features enhanced 5x.
This page is specific to the p1560/p1343 movies, and is not a comprehensive dust devil set. The
p1560 movie aims at an azimuth of 310, roughly up windstreak (now 245). If we add directional flavors
of p1560, they'll be here. NOTE: we are using an azimuth of 295 for early movies in the second
Mars year. We will transition to more use of the dust devil WATCH command once it is tested
against real dust devils.
A note on thumbnail panels: The image matrix to the left has change-filtered thumbnail images.
Images surrounded by a white border exist as complete subframes on the ground. Images surrounded
by a black border are not on the ground, or are incomplete. Time flows from the origin at
the lower left across (images 1-5), then up to the next row and across (6-10), and so on.
Typically, images 1, 6, 11, 16, and 21 (leftmost column) are downlinked pri 57, while the
rest are stored in pri 82 until downlink, repri, or deletion. The right side of the thumbnail
panel has reduced resolution versions of the change-filtered subframes for images 1, 6, 11, 16,
and 21 (if available).
Thumbnails are sensitive only to the strongest dust devils, but can be used to see something
about what is happening in images that are not yet down. Typically, all 4 low-priority images
on either side of a subframe with a dust devil should be downlinked. If a known dust devil
can be tracked, thumbnails can be used for save/delete decisions.